Pounds not coming off only inches , why?!?!
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Keep at it. Ensure you are weighing your food and not estimating. I think you're making fantastic progress.
You can be retaining water from intensity of exercises or sodium as well as normal bodily fluctuations or hormones.
Measurements are important so losing inches means you're heading in the right direction.0 -
kim808skittles wrote: »Are you doing your own measuring or is that part of the boot camp?Are you doing your own measuring or is that part of the boot camp?
I am being measured weekly by my coaches at the bootcamp ,Are you doing your own measuring or is that part of the boot camp?
No offense but they do have an interest in you losing inches...is it possible that they're holding it a little tighter than before?1 -
Based on everything you have said, my guess is that you are losing fat, but retaining some water. Water retention can easily mask a few pounds of weight loss and is common with a high-intensity exercise program. It can also vary due to time of month, etc. Because of that, plus varying amounts of food waste in your system, weight loss is rarely linear. I often go weeks with little apparent progress, then suddenly drop several pounds.
It sounds like you are doing everything right. Just keep it up and know that the scale will show it eventually.1 -
starryphoenix wrote: »I saw a girl that became fit by not losing any weight at all. She just gained muscle. She was 183 at the beginning and 183 at the end. You could tell her fat was replaced by muscle. Her belly and stuff was gone.
This didn't happen. No one gains muscle without gaining fat.2 -
trigden1991 wrote: »starryphoenix wrote: »I saw a girl that became fit by not losing any weight at all. She just gained muscle. She was 183 at the beginning and 183 at the end. You could tell her fat was replaced by muscle. Her belly and stuff was gone.
This didn't happen. No one gains muscle without gaining fat.
What about recomp?0 -
Just remember that a pound of fat takes up a lot more space in your body than a pound of muscle. While you may have lost a little bit of weight, you're replacing your fat with lean muscle mass. Way to go on your progress!1
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That's completely normal. Every coach I have talked too says to not even pay attention to the scale when you first start working out. You lose inches and build muscle. the scale will start going down though!1
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kim808skittles wrote: »Hi, I do fitbody bootcamp which is high intensity interval training for 30 min 5 days a week. I have lost 3 inches in almost a month but I've only lost 1.4 pounds! I'm eating clean meals high protein low car with one cheat meal a week and even that is portion controlled.
The process is working. The scale is such a poor tool! It measures your body weight not your body fat, your body is mostly water. This is a lifestyle, keep your focus on the process and the results will come into place automatically. Someday you WILL reach your goal and you will maintain and none of this excitement of change will exist, you do all the same process to stay in place, just slight tweaks but it's the same game for life.
Keep your focus on the process, not the results. The results just happen when you do that. GO! Just go! Focus!
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kim808skittles wrote: »Are you doing your own measuring or is that part of the boot camp?Are you doing your own measuring or is that part of the boot camp?
I am being measured weekly by my coaches at the bootcamp ,Are you doing your own measuring or is that part of the boot camp?
No offense but they do have an interest in you losing inches...is it possible that they're holding it a little tighter than before?
fairly sure you'd feel them pulling it 3 inches tighter ;P
OP you're probably retaining water for muscle repair. Its very common when starting out a new intense routine that gives you DOMS, if you're at a deficit chances are you are building very little new muscle just retaining what you have and increasing your fitness, the inch loss suggests you are losing fat though. Well done and in time that water weight will shift too, it's nearly impossible to avoid water weight gain with increased intense exercise and it is not a bad thing or something to avoid but it will make your scales fluctuate all over the place.
Also inches are better than pounds inches are what everyone sees, the scale is just what you see in private. Well done.0 -
kim808skittles wrote: »You did not mention how much you are eating. Are you eating at a calorie deficit, or just eating "clean"? If you don't maintain a calorie deficit, you won't lose weight, no matter how clean you eat and no matter how much you exercise.
Yes I do have a caloric deficit 90% of the time
What does this mean, though? What about the 10%? What are your stats (height, age, current weight, goal weight, calories)? Do you use a food scale for all solid and semi solid foods and cups/spoons for liquid only?
Can you please open your food diary/set it to public?
You're still losing weight. Are you close to TOM? Have you been going over your sodium? Increased or new exercise also means fluid retention.
You're not building muscle.... it's quite difficult for females to build muscle.1 -
DeficitDuchess wrote: »You did not mention how much you are eating. Are you eating at a calorie deficit, or just eating "clean"? If you don't maintain a calorie deficit, you won't lose weight, no matter how clean you eat and no matter how much you exercise.
She's losing inches which, means she's losing weight & thus, she's consuming at; a caloric deficit!
Ummm @DeficitDuchess... I'm not sure where you are coming from with this. Did you read the title of the thread and her post? She is specifically asking why she is losing inches but not weight (and 1.4 pounds is not enough to represent 3 inches).
If the 3 inches is from her belly, the answer is that her muscles are getting toned although she isn't losing much fat. That leads to a tighter, leaner-looking belly, even without weight loss.
What does that mean, her muscles are getting "toned"? Are you saying that by working out, her muscles are getting slimmer, so her belly is getting smaller even though she isn't losing the fat on top of that muscle?
I think you are getting confused with recomp, which takes a lot longer than a month. The answer most likely is that she is doing a great job, and it's being masked by retained water weight because of the workouts.
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vespiquenn wrote: »Ignoring the age old weight vs volume muscle debate, in just a month, OP is not building muscle. If it were that easy, especially for a female, we would all be ripped.
It's more likely water retention from TOM, sodium, or a workout given the timeline.
Agreed, I hope this doesn't turn into a whole thread about the difference between the weight of muscle and fat. She couldn't have produced enough muscle in a month on a calorie deficit for this to even be brought up in the first place.0 -
I'm always amazed at how complicated people make weight loss. Calories in, calories out, keeping track a ridiculous number of macro nutrients. It's pretty simple; eat better and be more active. Eat better today than you did yesterday. Be more active today than you were yesterday and be more active tomorrow than you are today.
While I know that 3" in a month is not unheard of, this does seem like quite a bit to me. After doing the math, that's 1/3 of an inch for every hour you worked out. If I were go to challenge anything, it would be the accuracy of your baseline measurement. Measuring yourself accurately around your stomach and hips is nearly impossible.
The important part to focus on is that you are making progress.0 -
Brandi_Allison wrote: »Just remember that a pound of fat takes up a lot more space in your body than a pound of muscle. While you may have lost a little bit of weight, you're replacing your fat with lean muscle mass. Way to go on your progress!
Please stop saying this! It is just confusing people. She did not replace fat with muscle in one month, and if she ever did she would be having a very specific way of doing things.
Sorry people keep saying this on here OP. It just didn't happen. You're on the right track just keep up the good work. I know it stinks sometimes seeing people lose like 10lbs in a week just by changing what they eat, and here you are working your but off, and eating healthy, and you lost 1.4lbs. You are the right track, just remember, to be extremely accurate with you logging of food, and it will all work out.
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lifeandleaves wrote: »DeficitDuchess wrote: »fantumrunner wrote: »muscle weighs more than fat
No it doesn't, a pound of muscle & a pound of fat're each still; a pound!
Oh for goodness's sake - that is purely pedantic.
Muscle is more dense than fat, so a smaller volume of muscle will weigh the same as a larger volume of fat - so inches can come off as far is burned and muscle is built up without much change on the scales.
To the OP - great job! It sounds like you are building muscle and getting results!
OP has not added muscle in one month of boot camp and calorie deficit...muscle does not just magically appear, although, I wish it did.3 -
I'm always amazed at how complicated people make weight loss. Calories in, calories out, keeping track a ridiculous number of macro nutrients. It's pretty simple; eat better and be more active. Eat better today than you did yesterday. Be more active today than you were yesterday and be more active tomorrow than you are today.
While I know that 3" in a month is not unheard of, this does seem like quite a bit to me. After doing the math, that's 1/3 of an inch for every hour you worked out. If I were go to challenge anything, it would be the accuracy of your baseline measurement. Measuring yourself accurately around your stomach and hips is nearly impossible.
The important part to focus on is that you are making progress.
So just keep being more active everyday until, what? I'm at a full sprint everywhere I go, holding dumbbells? And how do you keep eating better everyday? Is there an optimal diet, and if so, where do you go from there?
Sounds much more simple than a planed out healthy well balanced diet everyday...
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I also attend FBBC. The inch loss is total not categorical.2
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so your getting smaller. umm sounds like its working. weight is just a number, nobody goes around picking you up and saying "oops you must be fat because your heavy" no they look at the way you look. losing inches means trimmer, smaller sizes and inturn you "look" like you weigh less. who cares about the scale number. IMO0
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DeficitDuchess wrote: »fantumrunner wrote: »muscle weighs more than fat
No it doesn't, a pound of muscle & a pound of fat're each still; a pound!
I can't take it that is not how a semicolon should be used. Just leave the semicolon's out please
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Brandi_Allison wrote: »Just remember that a pound of fat takes up a lot more space in your body than a pound of muscle. While you may have lost a little bit of weight, you're replacing your fat with lean muscle mass. Way to go on your progress!
nope0
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